Cryptocurrency
Blockchain hashing, wallets and on-chain incidents. Clear-eyed coverage of how crypto works under the hood, the security trade-offs, and the hacks and exploits worth learning from.
Revoke Crypto Token Approvals: 10 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade cut gas fees roughly sixfold when it activated on December 3, 2025. That was good news for anyone sending a transaction. It was also good…
More Markets Hack Drains ~$410K via E-Mode Flaw [2026]
Correction (September 2, 2026): This article originally put the More Markets loss at roughly $9.3 million, based on security firm Blockaid’s initial automated estimate. Blockaid later corrected that…
Cronos Halts Chain After $75M Tectonic Exploit [2026]
Cronos, the layer-1 blockchain tied to Crypto.com, stopped producing blocks on Sunday, August 30, 2026, after an attacker drained the network’s largest lending protocol, Tectonic, in a scheme…
Crypto Exchange Account Security: 12 Steps, 45 Min [2026]
Coinsbuy lost $8.07 million in under an hour on August 9, 2026. The attacker sent a 5 USDT test transaction first, confirmed the hot wallet keys were live,…
NIST Finalizes PQC as $469B in Bitcoin Sits Exposed [2026]
Bitcoin just crossed an uncomfortable threshold. According to a 2026 on-chain analysis from Glassnode, 6.04 million BTC, or 30.2% of the entire issued supply, now sits in addresses…
Crypto Theft Hits $3.4B: Wallet Security in 12 Steps [2026]
Crypto wallet security searches jumped to 5,400 a month in July 2026, up 815% year over year, according to DataForSEO keyword data pulled this week. That spike lines…
Core Lightning’s 14-Day Lockdown Hits 3,750 BTC [2026]
Bitcoin’s biggest payment network just went into lockdown. On August 23, 2026, the developers behind Core Lightning, the Blockstream-maintained client that anchors a large share of public Lightning…
Crypto Rug Pull Checker: Build One in 10 Steps [2026]
A token launches on a Tuesday, climbs 400% by Thursday, and by Saturday the liquidity pool is empty and the developer wallet is dark. That pattern repeated often…
Allbridge Hack Drains $190K via Forged CCTP Message [2026]
A cross-chain bridge lost $190,000 on August 19, 2026, and the way it happened should worry anyone who trusts a “verified” cross-chain transfer. Allbridge, a mid-sized interoperability protocol…
10 Things Crypto Is Actually Useful For
10 Things Crypto Is Actually Useful For Cryptocurrency is often discussed as an investment first and a technology second. Bitcoin price cycles, speculative altcoins, exchange failures, and overnight…
